Geronimo Campaign
| Geronimo Campaign | ||||||||
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| Part of Apache Wars | ||||||||
Naiche and his band at Geronimo's camp on March 27, 1886, shortly before their surrender to General George Crook. Geronimo and his followers did not stay in army custody for long and they later escaped, leading to a final surrender at Skeleton Canyon in September 1886. Photograph taken by C. S. Fly. | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
| United States | Apache | Mexico | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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George Crook Nelson Miles |
Geronimo Naiche Ulzana | Unknown | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
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3,000, 193 Apache scouts (1885) 5,000 (July 1886) |
~40 warriors and 100 non-combatants (1885) 20 warriors and 18 non-combatants (September 1886) | 3,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
| 55 civilians killed |
20 women and children captured in August 1885 1 warrior killed (Ulzana's Raid) 20 warriors and 60 non combatants surrendered in March 1886 18 warriors, 12 women and 6 children surrendered in September 1886 400 peaceful Apache from San Carlos Reservation deported to Florida | Unknown | ||||||
Geronimo Campaign, between May 1885 and September 1886, was the last large-scale military operation of the Apache wars. It took more than 5,000 U.S. Army Cavalry soldiers, led by the two experienced Army generals, in order to subdue no more than 70 (only 38 by the end of the campaign in northern Mexico) Chiricahua Apache who fled the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and raided parts of the surrounding Arizona Territory and adjacent Sonora state in Mexico for more than a year.